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that i could not use something like authenticity. and what i ended up using was, was there a cost? did it cost them? did they give back? did they contribute in a way that i can see that was meaningful but that people at the time saw as meaningful? and i think that's still relevant, that trying to step outside ourselves at cost. not conveniently. not for fun and certainly not for profit which is what fannie hurst did. but trying to step outside our own cities, the identities in which we were worn be at cost is still a good thing. i still think this is worth doing. >> and i hear you on that. >> thank you. >> i think the struggle is that in a contemporary lens it becomes so difficult in light of our knowledge of the context of appropriation of black culture and specifically for profit once capitalism enters the picture. and i think it becomes about trying to negotiate some sort of balance between what i would call, you know, onerous ownership idea of identity in which it's all i own this and you own this and you can't take from me, and i can't take from you and the other side of the s
that i could not use something like authenticity. and what i ended up using was, was there a cost? did it cost them? did they give back? did they contribute in a way that i can see that was meaningful but that people at the time saw as meaningful? and i think that's still relevant, that trying to step outside ourselves at cost. not conveniently. not for fun and certainly not for profit which is what fannie hurst did. but trying to step outside our own cities, the identities in which we were...
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to use the metaphor at the end of your talk about david and goliath it occurs to me that you use to the goliath, you were the editor of the dsm and now you are on this other role of being outside and criticizing. i am curious what the reaction has been to your book and how receptive the profession of psychiatry and mental health in general is to criticism you brought to the table? >> there is nothing i said today that isn't absolutely common sense. nothing in the book, absolute common sense is all i have. i am not a deep person, just have common sense. the only people in the world who don't get it our experts in the field. i have been -- they now lot about it. everything about nothing and nothing about everything. i have been hurting experts for 35 years. i never heard an expert once say my area is too widespread. my area needs to be reduced. .. i think clinicians in general get it but the experts in the field have been very stubborn. a lot of them were my friends and i was not unable to convince them of the fact that they should have had a public trust that went beyond their own narrow
to use the metaphor at the end of your talk about david and goliath it occurs to me that you use to the goliath, you were the editor of the dsm and now you are on this other role of being outside and criticizing. i am curious what the reaction has been to your book and how receptive the profession of psychiatry and mental health in general is to criticism you brought to the table? >> there is nothing i said today that isn't absolutely common sense. nothing in the book, absolute common...
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a site at which a few of us, more than a few of us were arrested back in the days of apartheid. but nelson mandela stayed with us in gracie mansion -- which is where the mayor lives unless you've got $80 billion like mike -- [laughter] and so joy said i don't think he -- i said i don't think he'll fit in that bed. joy said, yes, he will. i said i don't think so, honey. and later i realized why i had doubts. i introduced him to bill clinton and al gore, and so we had photographs. and i realized the photograph that bill clinton is slightly taller than nelson mandela. but in my mind he was 10 feet tall. so each year i send the same message, happy birthday, mediba. his birthday is july 18th, and mine is july as well. i say happy birthday, mediba. when you're 109, i'll be 100, and we'll meet and toast one another. [applause] in the book i tell the story of how one of bill lynch's dreams was that we're going to have nelson mandela speak at yankee stadium. but we had trouble getting yankee stadium. george steinbrenner said it wasn't available, and i don't know whether he thought we'd t
a site at which a few of us, more than a few of us were arrested back in the days of apartheid. but nelson mandela stayed with us in gracie mansion -- which is where the mayor lives unless you've got $80 billion like mike -- [laughter] and so joy said i don't think he -- i said i don't think he'll fit in that bed. joy said, yes, he will. i said i don't think so, honey. and later i realized why i had doubts. i introduced him to bill clinton and al gore, and so we had photographs. and i realized...
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a will upper toward using a will. he got in the habit of naming his favorite pigs and keeping them in the back with them as long as possible, although eventually they'll have to go. i asked him if he would be willing to move if the neighborhood got right size but he shook his head. this is our house or generations. we pay our taxes. that's not happening. someone opened the gate. who's back there, marty asked. it turned out to be easy and. she didn't the flowers and this afternoon was pulling a red wagon with gardening supplies. i do it as much as i can she said. marty said the house had been in a summit for 50 years. 64 years. you've got to analyze this, marty said. these are some rough times we're living in. most of our jobs went overseas. you lived on the block's entire life watching the neighbor disappear around him. the barbershops, bars, ice cream parlors all gone. this neighborhood used to be straight, he said. he squinted at the thicket of trees across the street. you get used to it. it's quiet. i like the sere
a will upper toward using a will. he got in the habit of naming his favorite pigs and keeping them in the back with them as long as possible, although eventually they'll have to go. i asked him if he would be willing to move if the neighborhood got right size but he shook his head. this is our house or generations. we pay our taxes. that's not happening. someone opened the gate. who's back there, marty asked. it turned out to be easy and. she didn't the flowers and this afternoon was pulling a...
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, put them to good use for my family and put them to good use for society. you all have been very kind, very patient. .. >> especially public figures that have spent millions of dollars creating their own image. and so i think it is valuable sometimes to go behind that. so usually i am the one who is trying to get behind that and tell you what is going on. >> presidential history and american culture, kitty kelley sits down for your calls and comments live for three hours beginning at noon eastern, sunday on booktv's in depth. and look for other guests, including this feminism critic, christina hoff sommers and mark levine. >> this fall, booktv is marking the 15th anniversary and we look back at 2007. they have a legacy of ashes and the history of the cia. and this was given to angela roberts for the history of the english-speaking peoples since 1900. she recounted her family's immigration to the united states on booktv. >> it was difficult to register an emotional voicebox, but uncle frank said he thought he was caught up in something he had no way of under
, put them to good use for my family and put them to good use for society. you all have been very kind, very patient. .. >> especially public figures that have spent millions of dollars creating their own image. and so i think it is valuable sometimes to go behind that. so usually i am the one who is trying to get behind that and tell you what is going on. >> presidential history and american culture, kitty kelley sits down for your calls and comments live for three hours beginning...
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way by the state and most victoriously you could not crucify roman citizens and you could not crucify us this in the u.s. there was a way of showing a key system. as i was interviewing america's porter. and this includes the humiliation and the word humiliates obviously has this. we have a group of people that think it is okay to use the power of government to humiliate and interact with government and you see it in its cases and dealt with as a criminal. they are trying to get food stamps and get fingerprinted and that's an awful way to deal with poverty and that is part of the way to wrap this up because it should not create this kind of case, but that is what we have done and there are tremendous levels of distrust. >> thank you so much, thank you. [applause] [applause] and to this audience. this is some kind of a terrific audience and i really appreciate it very much. so we are going to have books for sale and the author will sit there and -- are you right handed? [laughter] >> okay, he's left-handed. so have fun. this is terrific. this is great and i love it. thank you for coming, s
way by the state and most victoriously you could not crucify roman citizens and you could not crucify us this in the u.s. there was a way of showing a key system. as i was interviewing america's porter. and this includes the humiliation and the word humiliates obviously has this. we have a group of people that think it is okay to use the power of government to humiliate and interact with government and you see it in its cases and dealt with as a criminal. they are trying to get food stamps and...